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Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by cavalryscout
One more reason why we should be investing in getting off this planet and finding new worlds to colonize. Yet I hear people all the time talking about how NASA and space travel in general are a waste of funding. This planet doesn't have unlimited resources and there's around 7 billion people on it, that's an increase of around six billion just in the last hundred years or so.
We need to get off this planet or things are gonna get really bad. Maybe Newt Gingrich's moon colony wasn't such a bad idea, I mean we did find water on the moon
Originally posted by eriktheawful
I do have to agree though: if major population centers in the desert are having the most problem, then the answer is simple: don't build there! hehehehe.
I know, I know, a over simplified answer, but it runs along the same lines as so many people being shocked when they build in hurricane prone areas, and one comes along to wipe them out. Or building along major fault lines......or on the sides or near a volcano.......
Originally posted by Blaine91555
Originally posted by Furbs
reply to post by Blaine91555
You must not be aware that there is more to worry about when doing laundry than water shortage.
Power is a much bigger concern than water when it comes to commercial laundry.
So your an extremist and I'm not. I'm not going to run around in dirty clothes.
That sign in the Hotels is a scam and nothing more. It's all about money and never was about the environment.
Originally posted by cavalryscout
To begin I'm sorry if I offended anybody who posted a similar thread.
Some say we can refine/filter polluted water. Sure we "can" do it but we as a society we value oil much more than water. So how much is really being done today to purify polluted water compared to refining oil?
We'll just wait until there's a crisis it is our nature.edit on 28-3-2012 by cavalryscout because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jonnywhite
I linked this in my last post here, but can anyone verify it:
www.innovationnewsdaily.com ...
Thanks. It has me wondering.
The plan? Ninety-five per cent of Ogallala water is now used for agriculture, but Pickens plans to pipe it 250 miles to Dallas, expected to triple in size in 30 years, with a demand for water far exceeding supply. Pickens is making the hottest of climate-change bets: that water's value will rocket as it runs dry. One man's thirst is another man's fortune. Irrigation farming would simply follow gold mining, open-range ranching and oil drilling in the traditional cycle of boom and bust. 'There are people who will buy the water when they need it. And the people who have the water want to sell it,' Pickens has said. 'That's the blood, guts, and feathers of the thing.' 'Obviously it would be a disaster for the Panhandle,' Steve Walthour, manager of the North Plains Groundwater Conservation District, says. 'But if there are no limits, he can take all he wants. That's the law of capture.'
Originally posted by ahnggk
How can we run out of fresh water when it's still raining all over???
Originally posted by W3RLIED2
What about the ocean?
Desalinized water is potable and easy to refine. That being said, it's extremely lazy to say we are running out of water. There's also a nigh endless supply of underground wells that have yet to be tapped.... Soooo, ya. Not quite out of water yet.
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by mojo2012
This is not fear mongering. We ARE running out of water; what we have left is used by industry (some might say wasted); and "water wars" already are breaking out here and there around the world.
FYI - The Ogallala/Great Plains Aquifer was tapped to irrigate the vaunted US Bread Basket; it's now almost sucked dry but people like T. Boone Pickens are 'harvesting' what's left and selling it for profit.
...What do you think will happen to the US food supply when there's no water to irrigate the crops or give the animals? And that's just the beginning.
Originally posted by mojo2012
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by mojo2012
This is not fear mongering. We ARE running out of water; what we have left is used by industry (some might say wasted); and "water wars" already are breaking out here and there around the world.
FYI - The Ogallala/Great Plains Aquifer was tapped to irrigate the vaunted US Bread Basket; it's now almost sucked dry but people like T. Boone Pickens are 'harvesting' what's left and selling it for profit.
...What do you think will happen to the US food supply when there's no water to irrigate the crops or give the animals? And that's just the beginning.
What do you think will happen when we start using ocean water to get fresh water?
There is no REAL shortages. Only created ones to aid in the development of NWO plans such as Agenda 21.